Sentences with phrase «cheap coal electricity»

Even in the United States, different interests help shape different attitudes: Poorer Americans in states more dependent upon cheap coal electricity are far less likely to support policies that would cost jobs or significantly increase energy prices than are wealthier Americans on the coasts, whose energy supply is already much cleaner.

Digiconomist says that with much of the network powered by cheap coal electricity in China, each transaction has a footprint of about 122 kilograms of carbon.

Not exact matches

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

Coal's slump is largely the result of cheap natural gas, which now rivals coal as a fuel for generating electricCoal's slump is largely the result of cheap natural gas, which now rivals coal as a fuel for generating electriccoal as a fuel for generating electricity.

New electricity from solar and wind will be cheaper than coal in most parts of the United States by 2023, according to a new...

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.

The reasons are familiar by now: cheap natural gas, cheap renewables, stagnant electricity demand, and old coal plants getting outcompeted on the market.

The blockchain center for the production of cheap electricity will be launched in Australia on the basis of the Redbank coal power station closed in the Hunter Valley.

Rolling back environmental regulations will not lead to a significant resurgence of the coal industry because those regulations played only a minor role relative to slowing demand for electricity and a surge in cheaper, cleaner sources of energy.

He, like many of his neighbors in rural areas with no electricity access at all, prefers to use cheaper wood, coal and kerosene for his own cooking and lighting.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

Coal - based electricity was historically cheap in India, but is now getting more expensive, National Geographic reported.

China opens one large coal - fired power plant a week on average to generate enough electricity to service its 1.3 billion population and fuel industries that manufacture cheap goods for the U.S. and Europe.

After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.

Texas might have to share its cheap coal - fired electricity with other states.

About 95 percent of Indiana's electricity comes from coal power, the cheapest energy source.

The U.S. Department of Energy aims to make electricity from the sun cheaper than that from burning coal or natural gas

«Cheap natural gas, the rapid decline in the cost of solar and wind generation, and continued flat electricity demand make it next to impossible that U.S. coal production will significantly increase in coming years.»

But coal is no sooty remnant of the Industrial Revolution — it generates half of the electricity in the United States and will likely continue to do so as long as it's cheap and plentiful [source: Energy Information Administration].

You might just as usefully predict that electricity from solar power will never be as cheap as electricity from coal.

The decline in the United States has mainly been due to market forces shifting electricity generation from coal to abundant and cheaper natural gas, along with environmental regulations built around the traditional basket of pollutants that even conservatives agreed were worth restricting.

With coal, the plants are cheap to build, the coal is cheap to mine, and a «natural monopoly» system of electricity generation and distribution helps lock out any renewable competition, leading to further economic advantages over renewables.

If we should have luck here in Germany, and the EEG does not fail, it would mean that in 20 years we'd have a grid mostly powered by renewable energy, paid by the private households alone, that will produce cheap electricity for the industry at a time when oil, gas and coal will be much more expansive than today.

Thus reducing the price of CO2 emissions from coal based power plants and in the end coal - produced electricity gets (or at least looks) cheaper.

1c: Nuclear is the ONLY source of electricity that is cheaper than coal on a per kilowatt hour basis.

If Germany could fight WWII on synthetic fuels from coal, and the US has enough coal to make enough electricity for the entire world for hundreds of years, wouldn't that be a good cheap «bridge» to some sort of viable solar / hydrogen next gen world?

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

But they can never be as cheap as coal - fired electric generation because the energy density of the sun's rays are not nearly at the level of fossil - fuels like coal, so you necessarily need more physical equipment to collect the energy, and turn it into electricity.

With a similar goal, Google launched a project in 2007 known as RE < C (Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal)-- which «aimed to develop renewable energy sources that would generate electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power plantsCoal)-- which «aimed to develop renewable energy sources that would generate electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power plantscoal - fired power plants do.

Stern said that electricity from coal - fired power stations only appeared cheaper because the costs of air pollution and climate change were not included.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

The cost of production of electricity through utilization of solar energy is outpacing other alternatives as the cost accrued in investing in the installation of solar panels is turning out to be comparatively cheaper than a comparable investment in coal, natural gas or other options, according to a new World Economic Forum (WEF) report.

It also shows why any investors basing their investment decisions on coal and gas continuing to be the cheapest source of electricity could be deeply misguided, given the relative shifts this LCOE sensitivity shows.

But because coal is one of the cheapest ways to fuel electricity, with abundant stores all around the world, global carbon pollution is growing.

The average U.S. price of coal and natural gas power is still cheaper than renewables at $ 65 a megawatt - hour, compared with wind at $ 80 and photovoltaic solar — generating electricity from sunlight — at $ 107.

That's disappointing: from Australia's point of view, a cheap, safe method of CCS would have resolved the climate change problem, at least as regards electricity, with no adverse impact on our coal industry.

As they increase production it will be cheaper than coal powered electricity.

Showing data from financial firm Lazard and other sources, their presentation said natural gas, coal and even some nuclear power plants were the lowest - cost producers of electricity on the planet, cheaper than wind or solar.

New wind power is now cheaper per megawatt - hour than new coal - or gas - fired electricity generation, but renewable energy still needs subsidies to compete with existing generators.

The reason both countries, who have large readily available coal reserves are so heavily reliant on fossil fueled electricity generation is because, without carbon pricing, it's slightly cheaper than nuclear power.

Incidentally, that much money could replace almost every coal plant in the region with clean gas - fired generation, which provides electricity much cheaper than wind while drastically reducing emissions.

In China, India, and the U.S., coal is cheap and abundant, and provides about half or more of all electricity.

By installing a large PV solar nameplate capacity, using the need to pay off this (subsidized) investment as the rationale for approved rate increases, and then selling us (mostly) the cheaper electricity they make from coal and uranium, they actually increase the profitability of coal and uranium more than PV solar.

Of all the common fuels that may be used to heat our homes: oil, gas, electricity, coal briquettes and wood; wood is the only sustainable one and is by far the cheapest.

It shows onshore wind as being among the cheapest electricity generating technologies; in particular, in 2013 it was on a par with coal; both around US$ 80 / MWh.

Indeed, coal's share of US electricity generation fell to 33 % in April 2012, the lowest level seen in decades, thanks in large part to cheap natural gas, and US CO2 emissions in the first half of 2012 were 13 % below 2005 levels.

We (and others) have voiced concerns that taxing natural gas, but not taxing coal, could make coal a relatively cheaper source of electricity despite its heavier carbon footprint.

In many parts of the U.S., wind energy is now the cheapest form of electricity generation — cheaper than natural gas and even coal, NextEra chief financial office Moray P. Dewhurst recently stated on an earnings call.

Technologies have been developed that can mature into industries capable of providing electricity cheaper than coal,» Page continued.

Cheap shale gas flooded the market causing natural gas prices to dive 80 percent since 2008, pricing out coal in electricity supply